A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
So, we just walked through how to generate a self-signed certificate in the last post. Next, we need to bind that certificate to a website in order to enable SSL on that website. This post walks through the binding the self-signed certificate. Make certain you have generated the self-signed certificate: Use the steps in […]
Raising your domain functional level is pretty easy, but so seldom done that most administrators are vary wary of the procedures. The key to success is understanding when you can legitimately raise your Windows domain functional level and Windows forest functional level. First, to raise either level to 2008, you must be running a 2008 […]
I have blogged about how to add a Microsoft Windows 2008R1 domain controller (DC) to a 2003 Domain. But, what if you need to add a Microsoft 2008R2 domain controller to a 2003 Domain? If you run adprep, you get an error because you cannot run a 64-bit executable in a 32-bit environment! The answer […]
So, I was looking through the system event logs of a 2008R2 SP1 server today. And, I found some error 57 several times followed by error 137. This pattern repeated itself every five seconds. The server was experiencing no problems other than this repeating error message. What could it be? Turns out that this error […]
In the middle of an Exchange data migration, and having full Domain Admin & Exchange Admin rights, I receive this troublesome error message — Error: Active Directory operation failed on XYZ. This error is not retrievable. Additional information: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. This error was presented to me when attempting to complete […]
Have you ever felt that your network should be faster? No really, the hardware is state-of-the-art. The software is current. But, the network response is lack luster. Servers to be responding slowly and pings respond slowly. You cannot find any underlying reasons for this behavior. Have you looked at your DNS settings, and specifically your […]
Have you ever needed to know which domain controller has the FSMO entries? For instance, as you are upgrading your domain to 2008R2, its important to move these entries from the old 2003 Server before you attempt to decommission it. Although you can get this information from the GUI, there is no one screen with […]